Hidden Bodies (You, #2)

by Caroline Kepnes

His careless, dirty hands graze the petals, my petals.

petal by petal

Just like it was my fault last winter. I go over the mistake in my head a dozen times a day. How I was hiding in a closet upstairs at the Salinger house. How I had to pee but couldn’t leave. So I pissed in a mug—a ceramic mug—and I put the mug down on the hardwood floor of the closet. I ran when I had the chance, and there is no way around it: I forgot the mug.

piss mug lore continues

She also had latex gloves.

ok this is definitely candace right? stolen card, gloves=no prints? but he crazy he would recognize her so ???

“Downstairs?” she asked. “Is that where you keep the special books?”

SUS if not candace she a grifter she a thief

(Blue contact lenses. She told me when I said I thought her eyes chestnut. No defensive lies. No trying to make me think I’m crazy. Amy tells the truth. Amy is the truth.)

candace

What did I do? I murdered my ex-girlfriend Guinevere Beck. I buried her body in upstate New York and then pinned it on her therapist, Dr. Nicky Angevine. Before that, I strangled her friend Peach Salinger. I killed her less than five fucking miles from here, on a beach by her family’s house, and made it look

honestly i kinda love the way this expositionary dump to recap the first book was done

and she just gets it when I tell her about Beck Tweeting from Bemelmans Bar, the way she had to look up solipsistic in the dictionary.

ik he's nutso but the 'i am going to slander this thing my ex did that i actually loved when we were together' is so hiss emoji

“Yeah?” I ask. “Yeah,” she says, and mimicking is a sign of love.

maybe yeah can be our always

she is not like other girls.

i just threw up in my mouth. first 'she must be on her period' gate and now this joe???

When a woman wants to socialize, no penis in the world can replace meaningless conversation about iPhone autocorrects—

i just...A WOMAN WROTE THIS i guess to show joe sux to his core but still. pls relent i already do not root for him

“Do. Not. Fuck. Delilah.”

delilah!!!!

Dottie

love's mom's name ! are we getting miss ma'am after all?

“JoeBro, don’t take this the wrong way, but you need to chill. Have you ever done a juice fast?” He hits a pack of American Spirits against the desk. “You get so intense. That gets your cortisol going. Cortisol is not cool.”

ahhh calvin is forty

People think cops are bad and this fucker should be fired because of all the good cops out there who follow the rules and risk their lives to serve and protect people.

of course joe is not acab

I go into Delilah’s bathroom, a carbon copy of my bathroom, a windowless vestibule, hell within hell. I take a shit. I don’t flush. I leave. An hour later, she texts me: I love that my bathroom still smells like you.

bro huh????????

it’s that time before you’ve fucked someone and every single movement is penetrative. My body is all dick.

what bitch

Hi Joe. I’m Love.

YESSSSSSSSSSS

it occurs to me that everyone knows that sex is better when you’re in Love.

god

“Forty to Love, Forty to Love. Checkity checkity breakity breakity.”

FORTY AND LOVE interested to see his personality when calvin seems very tv-forty-y

I kiss her. She kisses me back. It is the warmest kiss of my life.

huh???????? u have known each other for 5 seconds

I hold her hand on its way to the dash.

did i miss something how is this happening

“So I was up all night at this divey bar whining to my friends about how I wanted a sign.” “A sign?” I ask. “You know,” she says. “A sign that it was okay to leave law school.” She honks at someone who tries to pass her. “And then we’re still fucked up, just walking it off, and it begins. The Towers, the hell, and the world goes insane, and my friends are like, holy shit. There’s your sign.”

no…book love is calling 9/11 a sign for her to not do law school ?

solipsistic

not her using this word that legit no one uses

I am born again a Quinn, unofficial son-in-law of Dottie and Ray—the

bro WHAT DID I MISS he saw her at bar, walks in on her while working today, and now this ????

Ray doesn’t like his son like this, drunk and trying.

:( forty

I’ve been trying to find Amy for so long and now to break away from all that hunting, to rest.

the pacing of these books is just so quick like huh what is going on

She writes again: My French spelling sucks but my French kissing is good hahha I write back: Nothing about you sucks. And of course it’s the truth.

the no oral love lore has me geekin

He’s dating a really nice girl named Lorelai right now and you have nothing to worry about.”

amyyyy

She winces. “Don’t hate me, but it would be so great of you to do that in the bathroom,” she says. “This guy puked in my old bed once and the smell never really went away.” I’m gonna let that one slide. I promise to vomit in the toilet and she tells me to rest and take a cold shower if I can stand it. She says she’ll check on me in a little while when I’m not Sick Boy, the debilitated obligation upstairs.

interesting the way tv love doted over him when he was sunburnt

Justin Long.

<3

“I’m closer with him than I am with Forty,” she whispers. “I mean, do you know how wrong that is?”

nooo where's my it's a twin thing :(

I have a mug of my DNA in a house in Rhode Island.

piss mug lore

I shake my head. They always get like that when you reach the truth. The way a fish nips at the bait after circling. Robin is breaking. Biting.

ik he's an unreliable narrator but can he kill like . a normal person. why r they all kinda crazy

You get a job, you do the job. No slash. The end.

this is so silly lmao

you don’t need someone to come along and compliment your work, that someone who did that would, in fact, just be getting in the way.

truth. They were in the womb together. They remember the ’80s together. They were born together and they will take it to the grave together. Just the same, I step out of the shower. I text Forty: We need to talk.

this book is all revenge and murder. where is the stalk. where is the obsession. where is the you. where is the and and and . joe feels…,,…,different??

baseball cap.

hello tv joe

When people ask if he’s here alone, he says, “I’m with my girlfriend, Love. She’s upstairs.”

what bro lmao

A newly married couple enters the bar and everybody claps and Forty stands

OH NO

could pull over and roll him out the door but he’s on so much blow right now that he would probably just turn into a roadrunner, catch up to me, and jump back in.

lmao

the mug of piss I left in Rhode Island is with me at times like this.

my brother in christ if this mug does not play a role beyond this shitty reference in this book i will cry

iowaska

not how u spell it, how did this get through editing lmaooo

I left the mugofurine, my one loose end, and I won’t let it be my undoing.

i jinxed myself

I itch and I think my room has bedbugs.

more itching……do joey got an std? from delilah or from love?

want to marry this girl. I want to stay with this girl. I want our ashes mixed, our crumbling bodies buried side by side.

another round of romantic if not joe

I am preparing for the worst, for Love’s face to change, for her to run out of here screaming. In a funny way, all the women in my life helped me brace for this moment. My mother. Beck.

u killed beck bro she did not leave

“I’m pregnant.” Did I hear that right? “Pregnant?” Yes, I heard that right. “Pregnant!” Now there is permanence between us and it means her forgiveness is whole. True. If she were afraid of me on any level, she would have run out of this room and never told me about the baby, our baby. And then it hits me. We’re gonna have a baby! We’re laughing and I’m kissing her belly and she’s telling me about taking the test—it’s early—and she had to come tell me in person and she’s glad she did.

he is happy this time!

I find that it’s easier to start the day by going down a hill than it is going up a hill and I tell this to Jonah Hill at a party and he laughs and says don’t tell that to my fucking date, guy.

did not age well

Megan Fox uncrosses her legs. She wants me.

enough

“Joe,” she says, and she is Susan Sarandon. She hugs me. She pulls away. “I just needed to do that.”

i would have paid for him to start you-ing susan sarandon lmaooo